Youtube in higher quality!

Youtube's compression has always been its biggest drawback. However, by editing the url of a video, you can watch it in slightly higher quality! Simply add &fmt=18 to the end of the url, hit enter, and watch any youtube video in higher quality.

EDIT: For some reason, this video cannot be viewed in the correct aspect ratio unless you actually add the &fmt=18 to the end. Higher quality, AND Brett not looking like a fatty. Sweet.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• youtube
• high
• quality
• &fmt=18

[skatekristianstad]

You can type &fmt=bitch and it still works...

[hackerhell900]

it looks great with the fmt trick

[knappin93]

i never uses the higher quality because it takes to damn long to load! :(

[known12]

I'm sorry,youtube is obviously awesome, but I've never seen a website be so content with a rendering system that churns out bad quality.they are just too slow to get up to speed.

[ElPeruanoUFO]

lies, don't even think about it.

[ElPeruanoUFO]

lol @ ps1

[JPPT1974]

I always confuse both of you for a reason.

[garishyellowshirt]

I'm trying this on an already high quality video. I might explode out of sheer definition.

[Iceferno]

This trick actually works on all uploads since around March or something. Though when you upload a vid, it may take about an hour for it to become available. ;)

[OverlordPost]

I don't understand why the youtube staff arranges it so that the 'higher quality' becomes the 'standard quality.' Why is it that we have to go through the trouble of editing the url to get decent quality videos on here when a little tweeking with the program could probably fix the whole situation? It doesn't make sense.

[JoeyDrunko]

A few of my vids aren't showing the "Watch in high quality" option, so I tried this, and sure enough it works! Cool vid!

[TheVirusX]

Epic video. Thanks for this.